City Hall
LH homeowners associations (HOA) are responding to a proposed project that would construct a maintenance facility at the northwest corner of Forest and Audelia. This would include [...]
13 Jun 2012
The City Manager’s recommendations for a $600-million bond package includes constructing 47 miles of bike lanes. “All streets and arterials to be resurfaced or reconstr[...]
07 Jun 2012
Last year the City of Dallas launched its own Complete Streets Initiative, with a vision of safe and comfortable streets. Among fifteen pilot areas throughout the city is our own S[...]
24 May 2012
The goal of Dallas’ community prosecution program is to solve problems long before they reach a lawsuit.
Patrick Sanders is new to the job and oversees the Lake Highlands portion[...]
24 May 2012
I was about two-thirds into the DMN’s story about the Arboretum’s parking issues, which ran on Sunday’s front page, before fully understanding just how much land [...]
23 May 2012
Last month, the Keller city manager announced that he was firing himself in a budget-cutting move, and the Tarrant County community of 40,000 would save some $176,000 in salary. Or[...]
21 May 2012
It is if you believe city manager Mary Suhm, who told the council on Wednesday that there is enough money to restore some services that have been cut since the bloodletting started[...]
18 May 2012
Tonight at 6 p.m., Dallas Park Board member Gerry Worrall hosts a meeting at Winfrey Point to address the recent parking vs. park dust-up, of course, as well as other improvements [...]
16 May 2012
Here’s a question for Mayor Vision: How did he get to Fair Park for last week’s Texas-OU announcement? He didn’t need to take a signature bridge. Nothing illustra[...]
14 May 2012
Dear boss: I know I haven’t had a very good last year or so — not much writing on the blog, out of town a lot so I couldn’t keep up with what was going on around [...]
10 May 2012
The Emerald Isle Neighborhood Association will deliver a petition bearing 7,000 signatures to City Hall today. The petition urges the Park Department and the Dallas Arboretum to re[...]
09 May 2012
As further proof that nothing really new ever happens in life or politics, check out this vintage cartoon the DMN’s Robert Wilonsky stumbled across in the DMN archives. It sh[...]
08 May 2012
